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Hetero‐bimetallic Lanthanide‐Coinage Metal Compounds Featuring Possible Metal‐Metal Interactions in the Excited State
Author(s) -
Dahlen Milena,
Reinfandt Niklas,
Jin Chengyu,
Gamer Michael T.,
Fink Karin,
Roesky Peter W.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.202102430
Subject(s) - bimetallic strip , lanthanide , excited state , metal , chemistry , context (archaeology) , photoluminescence , phosphine , spectroscopy , inorganic chemistry , crystallography , materials science , atomic physics , organic chemistry , catalysis , physics , ion , paleontology , optoelectronics , quantum mechanics , biology
Heterometallic complexes, combining metals of the outer rims of the d‐block, for example lanthanides(III) (Ln) and coinage metals(I) (M) are scarcely reported, synthetically challenging and highly interesting in terms of their interactions. In this context, we synthesized hetero‐bimetallic Ln−M compounds ligated by the phosphine functionalized amidinate system ( N , N’ ‐bis[(2‐diphenylphosphino)phenyl]formamidinate, “dpfam”). The resulting compounds [dpfam 3 LnM][OTf] (Ln = La, Nd and M = Ag, Au) feature a close proximity of the two metal centres and were investigated experimentally by photoluminescence spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations. The latter showed rare La−Au interactions for the first excited state.